Science, Technology and National Socialism

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Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1. Scientists, engineers and national socialism Monika Renneberg and Mark Walker 2. 'Keinerlei Untergang': German armaments engineers during the Second World War and in the service of victorious powers Andreas Heinmann-Gruder 3. The guided missile and the Third Reich Michael Neufeld 4. Self-mobilization or resistance?: aeronautical research and National Socialism Helmut Trishler 5. Military technology and National Socialist ideology Ulrich Albrecht 6. 'Area Research' and 'Spatial Planning' from the Weimar Republic to the German Federal Republic: creating a society with a spatial order under National Socialism Mechtild Rossler 7. The ideological origins of institutes at the 'Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft' in National Socialist Germany Kristie MacRakis 8. Biological research at universities and Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes in Nazi Germany Ute Deichmann and Benno Muller-Hill 9. Pedagogy, professionalism, and politics: biology instruction during the Third Reich Sheila Weiss 10. The whole and the community: scientific and political thought in the holistic psychology of Felix Krueger Ulfried Gueter 11. Pascual Jordan: quantum mechanics, psychology, National Socialism M. Norton Wise 12. The ideology of early particle accelerators: an association between psychology and power Maria Osietzki 13. The 'Minerva' project: the accelerator laboratory at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute/Max Planck Institute of Chemistry: continuity in fundamental research Burghard Weiss 14. The social system of mathematics and National Socialism: a survey Herbert Mehrtens 15. The problem of anti-fascist resistance of 'Apolitical' German scholar Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze 16. Irresponsible purity: the political and moral Structure of mathematical sciences in the National Socialist state Herbert Mehrtens.